Time & Brevity
Castles in the Air
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Stevenson (1912)
Time & BrevityThe Mind
My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the Past alone I build
My castles in the air.
I dwell not now on what may be;
Night shadows o'er the scene;
But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.
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MLA
Peacock, Thomas Love. “Castles in the Air.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacock/12/.
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Peacock, Thomas Love. “Castles in the Air.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacock/12/.
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